- Fiction, Canada, Femmes, Histoire
This is the poignant story of Daisy Goodwill, twentieth-century pilgrim, from her calamitous birth in Canada to her death in a Florida nursing home nearly ninety years later. Struggling to find her place in the world, she listens and observes, becoming a witness to her own life and death in this rich tale that reflects and illuminates our own unsettled era. ~from the back cover
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Contemplative, grave, prestige and character-led.
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Carol Shields
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 361
- Publisher
- Goose Lane Editions, Tidens Forlag, Edicions 62
- Editions
- 65
- Language
- Dutch, tur, Portuguese, ice
- ISBN
- 9780007666232
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“MY MOTHER'S NAME WAS MERCY STONE GOODWILL.”
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